MIDTERM EXTRAS
Classics 25947 with Dalinghaus at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis
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Hephaestus
- landed in Lenos after Zeus/ or Hera threw him from the heavens
Athena
- imposes order on a impending attack
- teaches strategy and disciplined tactics
- goddess of wisdom
Theseus
- son of Poseidon
- curses son with death
Hippolytus
- Theseus son
- artemis= greatest of divinites
- shuns marriage
- is killed my Poseidon
- father's curse
Phaedra
- Theseus wife
- falls in love with Hippolytus- under Aphrodite's spell
- cries out to nurse
- kills herself- says Hippolytus raped her
Cyprus and Cythera
both places said to be where Aphrodite came to land after rising from the sea foam
Ovid's story of Pygmalion=King of Cyprus
- falls in love with statue-- turned into real girl
Cinyra's wife
- boased that their daughter Myrrha was more beautiful then Aphrodite
Cinyra impregnates his daughter and then goes after her with a sword but the gods transformed her into the myrrh tree
Cinyra kills himself
9 months the myrrh tree splits open and heroAdonis emerged
3 virgin women
- Athena=can not be persuaded my Aphrodite
- joy is in war and savage working of Ares
- Artemis= immune to Aphrodite's and her plots to ensnare men w/ love
- delight is killing of beasts in the hills (cry of the huntress)
- Hestia= repugnant to her works
- swore an unbreakable oath to remain forever a virgin
Actaeon
- victim to wrath or Artemis for sexual transgression
- wanted to marry his aunt
- OVID story= accidentally came on Artemis/ Diana bathing naked
- she turns him to a stag, mind of a human
- hounds rip him apart
Sources for Greek Myth from Different Periods
ARCHAIC
- first account of written myths
- Iliad and the Odyssey
- shift in the way in which literature was created
CLASSICAL
- Tragic plays
HELLENISTIC
- truth of myth
- Literature was now written to be read and not performed
Features of Greek Culture
- sea and slavery
- competitive= no forgiveness of failure
- Male=Dominant in private and public spheres
- women was modest and silent life, submission to demands of pleasing husband sexually and bearing children
- polytheistic religion
- there are no chance events
- myths refer to social mores
Three types of Myth
Divine Myth
- supernatural beings are the main actors
- explain the world/aspects
Legend
- stories of the great deeds of human heroes
- narrate the events of human past
Folktale
- entertain the audience
- teach or justify customary patterns of behavior
Myths of Creation (The Rise of Zeus)
- Hesiod gave best answer to Greeks of where the world comes from
- origins of the universe through succeeding generations of gods
- Theogony-1000 lined poem
Cosmogony
story that explains the origins of the world
Children of Gaea
- 1st- bore Uranus= sky, asexually
- 12 Titans, last child being Cronus
- 3 Cyclopes
- 3 Hecatonchires (100 armed monsters)
Zues in Power
- Titans resented their rule
- attacked the Olympians (Titanomachy= battle of the Titans)
- Zeus released Hecatonchires and Cyclopes for help in battle
- Cyclopes made Zeus his thunderbolt
- Atlas condemned by Zeus to live at the edge of the world to hold up the heavens
- Gaea, who had advised Zeus to summon the Hecatonchires in his struggle against her own children became his greates enemy
- coupling with Tartarus-> birth to Typhoes (typhon) battled with Zeus
Greek Anthropomorphism
- gods portrayed in the shape of men and women
- act and think like human beings
Greek View of death
- Death was caused by hostile forces from the natural world, a human being, or from the invisible realm of gods, ghosts, magicians and priests that we call disease
- humans= victims of the choices they make
- regarded Hades as a god to dangerous to call by name
Hermes
Soul guide, to underworld
Odysseus' Journey to Death's Realm
- earliest testimony to Greek belief comes from Homer's Odyssey
- witch Circe (whose island he visited) instructed him to seek advice from the ghost of Tiresia= most famous seer in Greek Myth
- Tiresia saw a pair of serpents coupling and killed the female
- as punishment he was turned into a woman
- offers to ghosts, sees mother, gets advice, sees crew member
Achilles
- greatest of all the Achaeans is next to come to the pit and adress Odysseus
- Odysseus complains of misfortune
- Achilles tells Odysseus not to complain because it is better to be landless and hungry than to be ruler of all the shriveled up dead
- (Greek pessimism about the afterlife)
Sisyphus
- seduced Anticlea ( Odysseus' mother)
- was the true father of Odysseus
- tricked Death himself, imprisoning him, and escaping to the upper world to live a second life
- labors endlessly without result (moving boulder)
- tortures of the damed= tortures of the living
Orpheus
- Journeyed to the underworld for bride Eurydice
- promised to not look back on his way back to the upper world
- invented male homosexuality
Plato's "Myth of Er"
- killed in battle but was found ten days later still alive to tell his story
- souls were judged and sent to be punished or rewarded for the good/evil they had done
- after 1000 years they returned to place of judgement and were offered a choice of new lives to lives to live when the returned to earth
- souls picked what they wanted to be
- tale taught that the soul is immortal and that mortal law governs the world
Aeneas
- descend to the underworld to speak with his dead FatherAnchises
- led by sybl
- Sibyl showed Charon the golden Bough
- he cleared a way for the pair and delivered them to the other side
- Cerberus snarled at the two
- Sibyl threw narcotic drugs that made his muscles go slack on the ground
Narcissus
- flower grown by Gia (earth)- doing a favor for hades
- When Persephone picked the Narcissus= earth opened up under her
Metaneira
- mother of child Demeter cares for
- cries out when she sees child in fire
- god of medicine and reputed ancestor of the Asklepiades
- son of Apollo, and Trikkaian princess Koronis
- was cut from womb by father after mother dies
- raised by centaur Kheiron
- instructed him on the art of medicine
- able to restore the dead to life
- destroyed by Zeus thunderbolt= crime against natural order
- placed among the stars as constellation
- depicted as a kindly, bearded man holding a serpent-entwined staff
- Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure and festivity
- instinctive side of personality
- depicted as either an older bearded god or a pretty effeminate, long-haired youth
- attributes included thethyrsos (a pine-cone tipped staff), drinking cup, leopard and fruiting vine. He was usually accompanied by a troop of Satyrs and Mainades (female devotees or nymphs)
Letto
- Apollo's mother
- mistress of Zeus
- persecuted by Hera
- not allowed to have her twins anywhere that sees the light of day
Delos, and Ortygia
- two waterless islands that accepted Leto to give birth
Cassandra
- love interest of Apollo
- demand prophet powers in return for her sexual favors
- he granted, she refused
- he added a condition: She would always speak the truth, but no one would believe her
- she prophesied the ruin of Troy
- no one believed her
- Troy fell- Argamemnon butchered her
first Sibyl at Cumae
- Love interest of Apollo
- gave her as many years of life as the grains of sand that she could scoop up in her hands
- refused to sleep w/ him
- failed to add a lasting youth to accompany a very long life
- she shriveled up
Daphne
- Love interest of Apollo
- nymph daughter of river god
- she rejected, he pursued her into the mountains
- to escape= father changed her into a laurel tree just as Apollo was about to possess her
- Laurel= Apollo's sacred plant
- given as a crown to victorious athletes
Asclepius
- God of medicine
- son of Apollo and mortal mother Coronis
- raised by centar Chiron
- removed from dead mothers womb
- greatest doctor ever lived
- pictured with a serpent wound about his staff
- snake= ability to restore health
Hermes
- Olympian God of animal husbandry, roads, travel, hospitality, heralds, diplomacy, trade, thievery, language, writing, persuasion, cunning wiles, athletic contests, gymnasiums, astronomy, and astrology
- personal agent/ herald of Zeus
- depicted as either a handsome and athletic, beardless youth, or as an older bearded man
- attributes=herald's wand or kerykeion, winged boots, sometimes a winged travellers cap and chlamys cloak
- trickster god
- stole Apollo's cows as an infint
- invented lyre
Apollo
- born on Delos
- shrine in Delphi
- jumps aboard ship as a dolphin
Delphi
- Center of the world
- place of Apollo's shrine-prophecy
- housed oracle
Hermes
Slayer of Argus= 100 eyed monster
- social and political opposite of Apollo (brother)
Dionysus
- instinctive side
- complementary to female principle in Demeter
- parents= Zeus+ Semele
- turned into a goat by Zeus= protection
Semele
- Dionysus' mother
- burned to a crisp after Hera visits her and questions Zeus' identity
- Hermes saved fetus
- became goddess Thyone= Dionysus came to underworld
About this deck
By: Heidi Garriott
Created: 2011-03-07
Size: 48 flashcards
Views: 36
Created: 2011-03-07
Size: 48 flashcards
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